1 February 2023 The Australian Government continues to support fossil fuel exploration and development in Australia, despite 2021 modelling by the International Energy Agency (IEA), confirmed again in late 2022, which finds that there can be no new coal, oil or gas...
Minerals Council of Australia
Dirty dollars – how the fossil fuel industry funds major political parties
1 February 2022 Australia was heavily criticised amid the United Nation's COP26 climate summit last year, as it reportedly joined or ‘hid behind’ others such as Saudi Arabia and Russia in opposing key commitments and negotiating text. Its last minute commitment to net...
Dirty money – political donations from the fossil fuel industry
1 February 2021 Prime Minister Scott Morrison was denied a speaking slot at the UN’s 2020 Climate Ambition Summit, and for good reason: Australia’s climate policy is one of the worst, and the rest of the world knows it. Far from being a wake-up call, just weeks ago...
Australia’s major political parties, brought to you by fossil fuels!
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Friends in high places: fossil fuel political donations
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BHP stands by climate-wrecking MCA
Melbourne, 16 November 2017 Yesterday’s BHP Billiton Annual General Meeting in Melbourne was notable for protests outside, and unhappy shareholders inside, who questioned the company’s record on climate change, its relationship with indigenous peoples and its response...